"The GNOME Foundation has issued a statement in response to recent accusations that it has been supporting the acceptance of Microsoft's Office Open XML format as an ECMA standard at the expense of the Open Document Format, the open standard used by OpenOffice.org, KOffice and other free software office applications. However, whether the statement's attempt at logical rebuttal will do anything to reduce the emotions or altruism behind the criticisms is anybody's guess."

They did with its monopoly, and even if ODF gets standar MS with its monopoly will be pushing its own format, lets put and example: the www standars are there, do you see them as the dominant format?, or do you see Internet Explorer twisted and low quality implementation as the dominant?